Schweppes Slimline Tonic, 12 x 150ml

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Schweppes Slimline Tonic, 12 x 150ml

Schweppes Slimline Tonic, 12 x 150ml

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Oh dear. Smells like toilet cleaner, with a fake lemon scent. It’s syrupy sweet, and to add insult to injury, it’s flat too. No stars at all. By and large, the “premium” tonic waters want to be seen as natural. That may mean they use “natural” flavourings, although that translates simply as “of natural origin” – they may be far removed from the strip of lemon zest that you might imagine.

This has fermented botanical extracts which sounds posh, as well as a huge 7.7g sugar per 100ml. It tastes slightly soapy, almost medicinal, and dries the mouth a bit – all of which works OK with tonic water, but you wouldn’t want to drink this on its own. Unwanted Food or Drink Products - Once supply conditions are broken, there are a number of factors outside of our control that can affect the quality of a product. Therefore perishable goods such as food and drink cannot be returned. For reasons of hygiene and safety, personal grooming products, cosmetics or items of intimate clothing cannot be returned.Good, instant fizz, almost sherberty. Delivers a nice dry bitterness; sweet without being overwhelming. Flavour is well rounded. Not cheap, but nothing matches this highly flavoured tonic. With hints of lime, it’s great on its own, but is also enhanced by gin. Too sweet, almost syrupy. There’s a lingering bitter aftertaste – not in a nice, snappy way – and not enough other flavour. Quite bland, and not fizzy enough.

With “light” tonic waters it’s more complicated, especially if you want to avoid artificial sweeteners. Lidl’s glass bottles, as well as Fever-Tree and Aldi Ridge View, are the only widely available “light” tonic waters that I found which are artificial-sweetener free, using fructose instead, like the standard London Essence, so they are not very low in calories. In fact Lidl’s “light” tonic water has a higher calorie count than some of the standard tonics. Both fructose (“fruit sugar”) and artificial sweetener get a bad rap from the original NOVA classification (the benchmark for identifying ultra-processed foods), but I’d take the former over the latter, which appears in some other premium light tonic waters I looked at – Lidl Deluxe and Morrisons The Best. For value, it pays to look for the price per 100ml. Smaller cans and glass bottles are usually more expensive: Schweppes nearly doubles in price when you buy it in cans. But other brands’ cans offer good value: Aldi’s Ridge View works out cheaper in cans than in a large glass bottle. And larger bottles may be a false economy if you end up throwing the last third away when it goes flat in the fridge. From an environmental point of view, aluminium is endlessly and easily recyclable (unlike plastic) and lighter to transport than glass, so it seems like a good bet. The only tonic I tried that contains juniper distillate. It’s highly flavoured, but with no depth or length; the taste is muddled and confected. Disappointing. The standard version is very citrussy. You’d need a strong gin to stand up to it. No bubbles. I’d like some lemon. As for the “standard” tonics (rather than premium or diet), almost all are sweetened with a mixture of sugar and artificial sweetener, generally sucralose, aspartame, acesulfame K or saccharin. Not only are they cheaper than sugar, but they now avoid that sugar levy. On flavour grounds, this is often bad news. Sweeteners, particularly saccharin, can be bitter, and especially disgusting to the one in four of us who is very bitter-sensitive. Secondly, manufacturers tend to put too much in, so artificially sweetened drinks are often much sweeter than their sugar-sweetened counterparts.Glass bottle looks premium. Flavour is marmalade-y and bittersweet, with no artificial sweeteners. Could do with more fizz but a great workhorse. Gin and tonic is as British as strawberries and cream – one of those combinations that really come into their own in summer. Gin’s recalibration from granny to groovy over the last decade may have made it the drink of choice year-round, but a G&T sundowner in the garden on a warm evening is still one of the quintessential flavours of the season.



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